Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A study by E2open – the 2021 Forecasting and Inventory Benchmark Study: Supply Chain Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic – provides the answers. Benchmarking the forecasting process is difficult. The company provides demand and inventory planning solutions based on a public cloud architecture.

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone? Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. ” Less than one third of respondents said “a nice career could be built in the demand planning area alone.”

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2015

That’s exactly what I thought of The Hackett Group’s recent article, “ Demand Planning Optimization – Three Key Steps to Unlocking the True Value of Your Supply Chain.” Know key market trends and their impact on the quality of demand planning. Understanding Key Market Trends.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 15, 2015

That’s exactly what I thought of The Hackett Group’s recent article, “ Demand Planning Optimization – Three Key Steps to Unlocking the True Value of Your Supply Chain.” Know key market trends and their impact on the quality of demand planning. Understanding Key Market Trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Consumer-Oriented Demand Planning. The opportunity for better demand planning at retail, wholesale, and distributor/franchise channels comes from the availability of data representing consumer sales as well as external data such as weather, sector benchmarks, and price monitoring applications.

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Logility

MAY 14, 2025

Many wanted abilities to respond to disruption and impacts to their demand plan while also preparing for upcoming promotions. Integrating GenAI into day-in-the-life workflows makes this kind of planning more intuitive and impactful. Download the report for key supply chain benchmarks and insights. Access Report

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 7, 2013

Demand Planning provides more or less the same performance across companies, with average weekly error rates of 53%. Terra’s Forecasting Benchmark Study is a pretty comprehensive survey. Reports benchmark study CPG industry demand planning forecasting supply chain Terra Technology'

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Third step: Explore how you can expand supply chain visibility to your suppliers and logistics providers, and retail channel partners so you can start getting signals of unusual events that will impact your plans. . Fourth Step: Benchmark KPIs to understand limitations and discover opportunities. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 20, 2014

Demand Planning Implementations Are Faster with Fewer Issues Than Supply. Demand planning is less industry specific than supply. While 67% of the demand planning implementations were at and under budget, 55% of the implementations of supply planning are over budget. We would love to see you there!

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Use benchmarking to identify gaps and opportunities in demand forecast capabilities - Gartner says that you can make your business case more compelling by demonstrating the gains others have won through demand planning improvements. 2% reduction in transportation costs (percent of sales).

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

With two experts in the fields of forecasting and demand planning, valuable insights were broadcast throughout the webinar. Freek explains that investing in forecasting or demand improvement pays off. EyeOn conducted a benchmark study with 90 companies to come up with a complexity measurement scale.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2013

There is such power in being able to pull together quantitative data with financial benchmarking analysis and qualitative interviews to help them see new insights. To understand this, a good place to start is the measurement of the forecastability of the products in the demand plan and understand how this is changing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

This morning, unexpectedly, I found myself in the middle of a debate between my two panelists on the Planning Benchmarking Panel for the Summit. Recently through my analysis of the planning benchmarking work, I have become fascinated on the role of inventory in the market-driven value network.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 6, 2023

MARCH 2023 – ToolsGroup earned a Higher Performer badge in G2’s Demand Planning Grid® – G2’s scoring criteria is that products shown on the Grid® for Demand Planning have received a minimum of 10 reviews/ratings in data gathered by March 07, 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Demand Planning Models Really Can Learn. A supply chain planning model learns when the planning application takes an output, like a forecast, observes the accuracy of the output, and then updates its own model so that better outputs will occur in the future. So, a plan can be produced that predicts the emissions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

In the recent research that we have just completed on supply chain planning benchmarking, we surveyed 430 planners. The planners in this study work for companies that have deployed (what I consider to be) the most mature demand and supply planning instances in the world. My goal is to share insights from the research.

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DynaSys

JULY 13, 2021

The demand planning cycle is a supply chain management process that uses forecasting to understand the demand for products. Demand planning strikes the balance between having sufficient stock levels to meet demand without having surplus. The demand planning cycle uses the following systems: Data management.

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CHAINalytics

JULY 24, 2017

By Steve Banker July 24, 2017 Companies love benchmarking data. Bad benchmarking data gives companies the illusion they are running their business professionally. It is often the opposite; bad benchmarking often leads to poor decisions. It is often the opposite; bad benchmarking often leads to poor decisions.

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DynaSys

AUGUST 17, 2021

We’ve discussed the benefits of gathering data and coming up with a strategy of collaboration when implementing a demand planning cycle. Now it’s time to walk through the importance of Performance evaluation in the Demand Planning Cycle by setting metrics and KPIs. Want to know more about Demand Planning?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Greg Toornman – vice president global materials, logistics and demand planning at AGCO – told more of this story in a panel at ARC’s Supply Chain Forum. The company is now benchmarked as having the top performing supply chain design team in Latin America. AGCO is an agricultural equipment manufacturer.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The North American Supply Chain Executive Summit will bring together a “who’s who” of industry experts, service and solution providers, and media partners from across North America to network, benchmark, share, and learn real-world solutions to universal challenges that face every SCM professional in their daily work.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

Last week, I interviewed Robert Byrne, founder of Terra Technology on his demand planning benchmarking study. I enjoy creating the podcast series, and Rob’s findings in his benchmark study are always thought-provoking. This is his fifth year of studying demand processes. Figure 1: Calculating the Long Tail.

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Logility

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This reality is compelling F&B companies to rethink their strategies and approach to supply chain optimization and demand planning. Staying competitive in this intense landscape demands finely tuned operations that are highly efficient and effective – from product concept to customer consumption.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The onset of COVID and the rapidly changing environment of a pandemic-hit world has meant demand planning has become more difficult – and as a result, more critical – than ever. What is demand planning? Demand planning is the process of predicting what customer demand will be for a certain product.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As Dritz noted, Collaboration with distribution partners and manufacturers can drive tremendous value by aligning core competencies and sharing demand plans. Key collaborative practices include: Demand Planning: Share forecasts with upstream partners to ensure readiness.

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Logility

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The first commercially available demand planning system was introduced to the market in the mid 1970’s by American Software. At that time only the largest companies could afford robust demand planning systems run on mainframe systems managed by a dedicated demand planning specialist.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The harmonization and synchronization of channel data to be used in forecasting, replenishment, and inventory planning. Demand Sensing. The use of pattern recognition and advanced analytics to analyze order patterns to translate tactical demand planning (forecast) into a short-term, and more accurate demand signal for replenishment.

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Kinaxis

MARCH 7, 2018

“In the beginning, it was tough,” admits Benji Green, Avaya’s Senior Director, Integrated Supply Chain Planning & Operations, in a recent article published by Supply Chain Digital. “12-hour Now Avaya is leading the way, exceeding industry benchmarks in 11 key metrics. Supply planning. Demand planning.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 8, 2019

We should look to recreate the demand drivers that generated those numbers in the first place. Enright says that poor forecast accuracy stems from firms’ inability to recreate the historical demand environment. At ToolsGroup we call this “ demand modeling ”. Click below for an infographic of the above image:

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Which parts of your demand planning processes are most broken or need the most improvement? Understanding your planning maturity is the best pathway to resolving these system, data, process and resource challenges. A good demand planning process requires these elements to be defined correctly.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In Figure 1, we outline some of the satisfaction rates with demand planning and S&OP software. The effectiveness of supply planning and production planning software is even lower than S&OP and Demand Planning. In essence, when it comes to planning, success is a flip of a coin. .”

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Poorly implemented demand planning software mis-forecasts demand for branded sneakers. Demand planning systems unable to forecast demand-slowing associated with economic meltdown. A few of the most infamous are listed below. The common thread? 100M in lost sales and 20% drop in stock price in one year.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 4, 2020

Highlights enhanced customer support including scenario simulation and KPI monitoring and benchmarking to help companies to be ready for anything. We benchmark ourselves against the leaders in our industry on a monthly basis and we are constantly beating their forecast accuracy metrics. Companies Share COVID-19 Response.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For the many companies that aren’t yet able to make use of all this data, the ability to connect to cloud platforms where vendors provide machine learning-driven analytics, benchmarking and predictions will be game-changing. Does all of this sound like science fiction? Not at all!

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The North American Supply Chain Executive Summit will bring together a “who’s who” of industry experts, service and solution providers, and media partners from across North America to network, benchmark, share, and learn real-world solutions to universal challenges that face every SCM professional in their daily work.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

Advanced demand analytics like pattern recognition and machine learning can help to gain better insight from this downstream demand data to improve demand projections and near-term forecasts. Steutermann calls this “ shifting from sell-in to sell-through ”.

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Demand Solutions

MARCH 27, 2020

The company has a very high retention of team members and have set world class productivity benchmarks in all areas of operations. It's no surprise then that tardiness, poor attitude and absenteeism are almost non-existent across all departments.

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